This is Business: Always Offer Value.

Dad: Son, I want you to marry a girl of my choice.
Son: No.
Dad: She is Bill Gates daughter.
Son: OK, I'll do it.

Dad: Bill Gates I want your daughter to marry my son
Bill Gates: No.
Dad: He is the CEO of World Bank
Bill: Okay, Lets do It.

Dad: I want you to appoint my son CEO of World Bank
WB President: No
Dad: He is the son-in-law of Bill Gates
WBP: When can he start.

This Is Business. Always offer value in order to deliver value.  Not perfect, but it gets shit fucking done!

Politics, on the other hand.....coercion, coercion, coercion. And endless rigmarole.